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I've spent a good part of my life in various wards and rooms at the C-burg hospital and never knew it was a not-for-profit hospital.Their site says no one will ever be turned away from receiving services...we'll see.
A gripe about wives and a gripe about one's adult kids being sick:
David, our 22 year old son, seems to have appendicitis. Barb just ran him to the hospital. She wanted me to go, but the idea of spending hours without the ability to get my legs up off the floor (since one needs to do that with congestive heart failure) was NOT appealing. So I let her go alone with explicit instructions to avoid signing anything for any reason.
The Chambersburg Hospital's site: http://www.summithealth.org/ch990.pdf
states they are a not-for-profit hospital. David makes $5.30/hr. at Red Lobster so he has little ability to pay. We're not starving to death, but surely don't have any money (it all goes to OUR medical insurance). I'm wondering...
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
Follow Ups:
...some are truly comitted to helping folks.As are many for-profit hospitals.
And for others, this is just another way of bookeeeping to remain tax exempt.
Barb wanted me to go with her, I'm thinking, "I just took him to work, picked him up from work (1/2 hour in betrween each run) when he was sent home sick and besides, I may have to put my feet up". But mainly, I don't want to go to the hospital...I've spent too much time there in the last two years.So, I make her promise not to sign ANYTHING (I told you that). But, underlying the "I'll take him." is that wifely, "But I'd rather you do it or at least come along".
I'm thinking, "The thoughts of being anywhere near a hospital makes me sick to my stomach," and besides, "What reason in hell do both of us need to be there?"
So, then I figure I have to take a stand on the " issue which we have discussed many times here at Central. "Proper" grammer says we put the quotes outside the punctuation...or is it inside...no matter, noner of it makes sense so I wander back and forth in brainless wonder. I'm a wonderful wanderer. So, since I don't care one way or the other...""""""to you, you grammarian sons-a-bitches out there in Websterville!
Or are they at Harvard?
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
as if this were the case certain of their graduates may not have gained their degrees?...
My profs were not very easy on us when we used incorrect punctuation...luckily, I'm no longer in school so I can choose to forget all that's "correct" and occasionally (at least) throw the rules out with the rest of the useless garbage.In all seriousness, I believe high standards should be adhered to when writing at any time. The argument we had here at Central a year or two ago concerned the "why" of where quotation marks are applied more than the "where." The last sentence ended in exactly the ways in which we were discussing. Checking in my MLA, the rules are so complex and ambiguous, that anyone would be driven crazy by what is and what is not correct:
Long quotes, periods outside the mark: short quotes, periods inside the mark, except when...da dee da dee da dee. AND if the damned MLA even made it as simple as I just wrote people could understand, but NOOOOOOO! But simplicity is not a word one could ever use concerning the English language and especially, its use of punctuation.
Back when I was writing a lot of research papers, I would constantly check to see which was correct in what situation. THEN, I would have a friend who teaches middle school English in the area check to see if I'd CHOSEN correctly, THEN I'd review it once or twice more...and there would always be mistakes to revise.
When I got really frustrated, I took it to another prof (ANY prof, as long as THAT paper wasn't for their class). Invariably, one would contradict the other about SOMETHING!
So, when we discussed this here at Central, it was (humorously) suggested that a period should ALWAYS be outside of the quotation mark. Which of course, is wrong. BUT WHO CARES in the end?
I would, and still do, work hard to construct a sentence that any word used with quotation marks would either be within the sentence (rather than end with it) or used in a way to set the type in italics.
THAT made it simple; and right, wrong or whatever, simplicity in writing is far better than long winded shit like I just wrote!
Any incorrect punctuation marks or misuse of any point of grammar in the above diatribe is not the fault of the writer, as he is brain-dead.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
of examples of the shoddy use of the English language...My own cause for extreme irritation is the entirely superfluous apostrophe apparently used so often these days when referring to numbers of items (eg "CD's", rather than the entirely adequate (and linguistically correct!) "CDs"...)...
An indication of seriously falling educational standards over the decades?... I rather think so, as precise results are so much less likely to be generated by inherently sloppy minds...
Bill.
I use it sometimes and then delete it, then use it another time and forget to delete it, other times I just write it CDs.Which is strange, as I never write LP's. At least I don't think so!
My big shudder comes from they're and their! I absolutely hate seeing that! But, people hate the way I scratch my butt, so who am I to say what's right or wrong.
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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